Day: September 19, 2017

At The Gardens, volunteer Kendra has started a weekly Women’s Self Defense class to give female residents confidence and build community. By focusing specific needs when training women to most effectively defend themselves, Kendra was able to show simple yet useful methods to respond to an assault. These involved what to do even when the…

For several years now, Hope Communities has hosted the First Baptist Church of Aurora and the First Baptist Church of Arnold, Missouri at Hidden Brook Apartments for an Eyeglass Clinic. Thanks to these generous volunteers and donated eyeglasses, many residents received an eye exam and obtained a pair of prescription glasses free of charge!

Hope Communities was delighted to celebrate with multilingual youth residents at the Youth Language Festival, organized by Spring Institute for Intercultural Learning. All youth in the community were invited, and over 150 turned out to participate in various activities where tickets were exchanged for reading, writing, and speaking in a language other than English. Youth…